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don't mean to get off topic but there is a similar case being pursued in california...
3 Calif. teens arrested for sex assault after girl's suicide
»www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-575···assault/

they even mentioned the canadian case..the photo's seem to be the issue.

"We are talking about a systematic distributing of a photo involving an intimate body part of hers," Allard said. He said distributing the photo was "equally insidious as the assault."

The hacker group Anonymous claims they have a confession from a suspect who allegedly raped Rehtaeh ....

»www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/1···615.html

Rehtaeh Parsons, Amanda Todd, Steubenville: Anonymous is here to stay....

»www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/···tay.html

"In Amanda Todds case, the group was criticized for releasing the name and address of the man it claimed was the sexual predator who harassed Todd before her suicide. The British Columbia RCMP said that allegation was unfounded, though stopped short of saying Anonymous had named the wrong man."

you can have all the anonymous you want, and all the police forces you want, there is only so much they can do....our laws need to change, and that starts with the people and politicians we vote for.

the whole young offenders act & sexual assaults.

Only about halfway through, but tonight's episode of the Good Wife is pretty much about some of what's gone down here. Even a nod to anonymous as a guy walking down the street with the mask on.

ETA: episode title is Rape: A Modern Perspective

the parents of the the young girl Potts who committed suicide in california, are filing a wrongful death lawsuit...
these 3 boys might be tried as adults.
a former prosecutor says in california there is actually a statute that allows you to hold parents criminally responsible for injuries, for delinquency of a minor etc...also they were not home when this party took place and therefore it is a unsupervised event by the parent.

Posters go up supporting boys in Rehtaeh Parsons case

»www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot···ers.html

I'm all for warning away from vigilantism that can come with these cases, but the message in these posters feels eerily like the response of many to the Steubenville case, where excuse after excuse was made for the accused, and even after being convicted the rapists were receiving more sympathy for their "wasted futures" than the victim ever received.

Oh, it's definitely supporting the boys. Poor little pedo-distributing pornographers need support.

(I say pornographers for there's no question someone took pictures and plenty of people distributed them. With Rehtaeh dead they all be claiming it was consensual, with nobody to tell a different story.)

That's a problem with our current system, there appears to be more concern for the perpetrators then for the victims...

Rehtaeh Parsons's family alone with our Premier Darrell meet yesterday in Ottawa with Prime Minister Harper...

The family is reporting it was an heartfelt talk with the PM...

»www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot···per.html

There is hope some type of anti-bullying legislation will be in effect by end of June....

Clay, the author of the Webcomics "The Thin H Line" and "Depression Comix" has his own thoughts about the whole affair.

»depressioncomix.tumblr.com/post/···omix-120

Province of NS unveils cyberbullying bill, feds still working on it.....

»www.news957.com/2013/04/25/provi···g-on-it/

Anti bullying panel is expected to release some of it's findings today....

This story sounds all to familiar... Until we start holding people responsible for their actions I suspect this type of crap will continue....

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Have we learned nothing from the Rethaeh Parsons case?

Is there some problem we have collectively as parents of boys and girls?

In today’s Metro, reporter Ruth Davenport interviewed the mother of the girl allegedly victimized by a group of boys in late March.

According to Mom, she picked up her daughter from an all you can drink party, unable to walk after being dragged outside by a group of boys and captured on video having oral sex.

The budding pornographer thoughtfully shared the scene on a social media site.

Then the bullying began by the other kids at her school. Mom says “She’s being bullied, being called names by the girls and boys offering bus tickets for blow jobs.”

Sound familiar?

The girl is now in counselling, trying to put her reputation and life together…after being made “Facebook famous”.

Talk to your kids. Tell them to smarten up.

If we don’t do something about the behaviour of our teens…it appears that now the police will.

»www.news957.com/inside/blog/have···ns-case/

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I say they do something about Facebook... It's the medium these fools use for such activity.

Its not social media, it's social plague.
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NDP MP Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth-Cole Harbour) is tabling a private bill to redefine voyeurism in Canada’s Criminal Code...hoping to make it illegal to share images of someone engaged in a sexual act without their consent...

This is of course in reaction to the Rehtaeh Parsons tragedy...

»www.news957.com/2013/06/18/n-s-m···ns-case/

Ok...fine. Does that new definition of voyeurism stop it from happening in the first place? No, it's just another police charge after the fact.

It could be argued, "Do laws actually stop any crime from happening?"... But as a society I think we are better with laws in place and enforced...

social media is keeping albertan's connected at this time of great need.
thank-you social media!